The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
Booker T. WashingtonAbout author
- Author's profession: Educator
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 5, 1856
- Died: November 15, 1915
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